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Historical Event on 7/31/1880
Nawab Rai\Dhanpat Rai, 'Prem Chand', great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and headmaster, was born at Lamahi village near Varanasi, UP.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
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| 6/21/1814 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 12/28/1981 | New Government led by the Congress (I) leader K. Karunakaran installed in Kerala. |
| 11/5/1927 | Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi. |
| 10/27/1907 | Sardar Bhagat Singh, the great martyr, was born in village Banga, Lyallpur (now in Pakistsan) in a reputed Sikh freedom fighter's family. |
| 12/4/1989 | Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan. |
| 5/13/1923 | Moinul Haque Choudhury, social reformer and politician, was born at Sonabarighat (Assam). |
| 4/2/1996 | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) party registered and recognised. |
| 4/28/1993 | Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen. |
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